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Ashton Marra covers the Capitol for West Virginia Public Radio and can be heard weekdays on West Virginia Morning, the station’s daily radio news program. Ashton can also be heard Sunday evenings as she brings you state headlines during NPR’s weekend edition of All Things Considered. She joined the news team in October of 2012.

Updated: 4:36 p.m., Monday, Dec. 7, 2020 COVID-19 cases in Ohio are spiking, but the numbers might be flattening out, Gov. Mike DeWine said at a data-focused Monday press conference. However, hospital officials tell him the numbers are still far too high, and normal healthcare operations are unsustainable with the current caseload, the governor said.

Updated: Friday, June 19, 4:18 p.m. Almost immediately after Cincinnati City Council approved a plan to paint a Black Lives Matter mural on Plum Street...

The $1.4 billion Downtown Ramp Up project redoing the I-71 and I-70 interchange is nearing completion.

Neither former President Donald Trump nor Vice President Harris have plans to fix the national debt, risking "an eventual fiscal crisis," a budget nonprofit group found in its analysis.

Updated: 4:55 p.m., Friday, Sept. 18, 2020 The Ohio Power Siting Board (OPSB) has repealed a provision requiring a proposed wind farm in Lake Erie shut down its turbines overnight from March 1 to Nov. 1. Board members unanimously approved a motion by Mary Mertz, director of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, to remove the requirement at the OPSB meeting Thursday.

Updated: 4:32 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2020 Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine celebrated the next phase of the state’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout on Tuesday, broadcasting the inoculation of several seniors during his twice-weekly pandemic update. The state launched Phase 1B of vaccine distribution Tuesday, and Ohioans age 80 and older are first in line. People in that age group make up more than half of the COVID-19 deaths in the state. Next week, Ohioans age 75 and up will be eligible.

Updated: 4:45 p.m., Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020 Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and leaders from the state’s top children’s hospitals on Tuesday offered advice on how children can return to school in a safe manner and offered statistics on the impact of COVID-19 on kids.

Updated: 4:57 p.m., Thursday, March 12, 2020 Sporting events across the state of Ohio – from high school and college to professional sports of all kinds – are on hold or outright canceled as the COVID-19 virus continues to spread. The Ohio High School Athletic Association (OHSAA) is postponing the girls’ state basketball tournament, state individual wrestling tournament, state ice hockey tournament and boys’ regional and state basketball tournaments.

Updated: 4 p.m. on Friday May 1, 2020 Two northeast Ohio health systems, University Hospitals and MetroHealth, are using antibody tests on frontline employees to better understand COVID-19 and if it’s possible to become re-infected with the virus. University Hospitals plans to test about 10,000 employees, nearly half its staff, for the coronavirus to see if they have developed antibodies, said Dr. Robert Salata, chair of the department of medicine at UH.